Finally calmed down. I've been working all my SB off a USB flash drive, and managed to drop my laptop with the drive installed ... and physically broke the drive. Nothing short of microsurgery to rebuild it could save the data, so it's all dead. Fortunately most of my completed pictures that haven't...

Beardmore Inflexible https://i.imgur.com/acQ5PK5.png A solution without a problem, the massive Inflexible was a stressed-skin design built in Scotland by Beardmore from the German Rohrbach Ro VI design. As an idea of it's massive size for the 1920's, it's wingspan of 48 metres was almost 5 metres g...

Saro P.192 Queen
Planned 1000 passenger giant flying boat for P&O, so really she what better place for her than a nautical forum.
I originally made this in FD scale, but she would have been so enormous I had to see how she'd have looked in standard shipbucket scale.

SARO P.192 Queen https://i.imgur.com/ZJDzOH6.png Probably the largest aircraft to almost be constructed. SARO got far in the design and even design of support facilities, before the project was cancelled. The design customer was P&O Cruises, looking for a 1000 passenger flying liner. Painted in a t...

Breda-Zappata B.Z.308 https://i.imgur.com/4mn2Bv5.png Completed after the end of WWII, only a single B.Z.308 was produced. Eventually passed to the Italian airforce the aircraft was damaged at Mogadishu and eventually scrapped there. A pressurised variant, the B.Z.308bis, was briefly mentioned, but...

There are still another couple of Avro designs that I couldn't illustrate, because after nearly 75 years there doesn't appear to be enough information to work out decent schematics, the superbombers just boggle the imagination. Avro 686 - high altitude Lancaster replacement - separate from the high ...

Avro 716 Shackleton Mk.3 https://i.imgur.com/5XvVjpl.png The initial design for the Shackleton Mk.3 was for an aircraft fitted with the Napier Nomad engine. As Napier dropped development of the very complex Nomad 1 and embarked on the less radical but still extremely efficient Nomad 2, this engine ...

We already have a magnificent Shackleton collection on shipbucket, but I'm indulging my interest in prototypes and one-offs as an addition to Shippy2013 and Naixoterk's work. Avro 696 Shackleton https://i.imgur.com/F9xH6vT.png The Lincoln ASR.III eventually morphed into a new design as the Shackleto...